Maisie Dobbs

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  Maisie Dobbs is a psychologist and private investigator who was a nurse in World War I. Set in London and the surrounding area thirteen years after the war, this novel involves the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy businessman.As Maisie investigates the disappearance, she discovers a connection between the missing woman and three other women who have recently been murdered.
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  Maisie and her assistant Billy Beale are both working through their experiences in the war and Maisie uses these experiences to help her figure out the reason for the murders.
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  Maisie and her assistant Billy Beale are both working through their experiences in the war and Maisie uses these experiences to help her figure out the reason for the murders.

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  Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton.When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons.
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  At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge there.Maisie hurriedly investigates, uncovering a disturbing mystery, which, in an astonishing denouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront a ghost that has haunted her for years.
  
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  AudioFile Magazine... Rita Barrington's narration creates a vivid sense of time, place, and character in MAISIE DOBBS.
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  When Lady Rowan discovers her servant-girl, Maisie, studying in the library, she arranges for tutoring.WWI intrudes, and education is put on hold when Maisie goes to the battlefields of France as a nurse.After the war, she becomes a private investigator.Her first case seems to be a straightforward case of infidelity but soon has her dealing with her own experiences in the war.

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  Penguin Books © 2003, 294 pages [amazon]4 stars
  
  Jacqueline Winspear's historical mystery Maisie Dobbs begins in 1929, just over ten years after the end of the Great War, when its eponymous protagonist takes on her first case as an independent "cerebral investigator."
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  Maisie's client comes to her with an ostensibly straightforward domestic problem, but the case leads Maisie into a greater mystery involving a home for disfigured veterans--a path that leads Maisie also to reexamine her own war-time experiences.
  
  Maisie was tutored by a friend of her employer's, a Yoda-like character who spouted Eastern wisdom and taught his protégée a sort of holistic approach to detection.In a lengthy digression from her "modern" mystery in the book's midsection, Maisie's past is fleshed out.The daughter of a costermonger, Maisie went into service in 1910, at the age of thirteen, in the home of a woman who would become her benefactress.Maisie was tutored by a friend of her employer's, a Yoda-like character who spouted Eastern wisdom and taught his protégée a sort of holistic approach to detection.Later, after a brief stint at Cambridge, Maisie served as a nurse in the blood and muck of France and was courted by a charming doctor with whom she had danced once in England prior to shipping out.When the book's narrative returns to Maisie's present what we now know of her past renders her experiences in 1929 more poignant.
  
  Maisie Dobbs is a nicely written book and a gentle read, despite its subject matter.
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  More literary than genre fiction--if one is to categorize the book by those unspecific terms-- Maisie Dobbs does not in fact offer a compelling mystery.Its focus is rather on the characters Winspear is introducing and on recreating the feel of the period between the wars, in showing, in particular, the effect the First World War had on those who lived through it.But with this back story established in this first book, it will be interesting to see how the Maisie Dobbs mystery series proceeds, whether our heroine's powers of detection will be tested in subsequent installments by mysteries sufficiently gripping to carry a book themselves.
  
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  When the authorities refuse to conduct further investigations, Georgina takes matters into her own hands, seeking out a fellow graduate from Girton College: Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator.
  
  Woodrell, Daniel.Winter's Bone (Back Bay $13.99).Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family.On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers as well as her mother, learns that her father has skipped bail.If he fails to appear for his upcoming court date on charges of cooking crystal meth, his family will lose their house, the only security they have.This is the story of Ree's quest to bring her father back, alive or dead.

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  In the midst of the hop-picking season in the village of Heronsdene, Kent, Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, undertakes an assignment from James Compton, son of her long-time supporter, Lady Rowan Compton, to look into aspects of a land purchase on his behalf.
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  Quickly drawn into the local community, Maisie soon becomes involved in an effort to discover the source of petty crime in the area as well as a spate of fires that has blighted Heronsdene for years.

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  Maisie Dobbs: A Maisie Dobbs Novel #1
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  Author: Jacqueline Winspear Narrator: Rita Barrington Series: Maisie DobbsISBN-13: 978-0-7927-3460-4 ISBN-10: 0-7927-3460-2
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  Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton.When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons.
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  At first, Maisie only suspects foul play, but she must act quickly when Lady Rowan's son decides to sign away his fortune and take refuge there.Maisie hurriedly investigates, uncovering a disturbing mystery, which, in an astonishing denouement, gives Maisie the courage to confront a ghost that has haunted her for years.
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  Maisie Dobbs: A Maisie Dobbs Novel #1

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  Jacqueline Winspear's mysteries features Maisie Dobbs, who served as a nurse in the war.

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  MAISIE DOBBS
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  Jacqueline Winspear has created a unique sleuth in Maisie Dobbs.
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  Maisie uses her hard-wired intelligence and highly developed intuition to aid her in solving cases between World War I and World War II England. AMONG THE MAD, the sixth book in this period mystery series, is set in London during Christmas 1931 through New Year's 1932.
  
  On Christmas Eve, Maisie and her assistant Billy Beale set off to deliver a final report to a client. They come across a man sitting on the pavement in some distress, and Maisie tells Billy to move away. Her keen sense of people informs her that something is not quite right. Shortly thereafter an explosion occurs. Maisie, who is injured in the blast, becomes a witness to the crime. Billy, a WWI veteran, identifies the weapon as a Mills bomb, or a basic hand grenade. But the identity of the man who died while setting off the explosive is a mystery.
  
  Billy spends Christmas Day with his family, while Maisie goes to visit her father.
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  Maisie, who is also mentioned in the letter, becomes an advisor on the case for MacFarlane.
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  As the Special Branch begins their search for the person who wrote the letter and the identity of the suicide victim, Maisie calls on her contacts from her nursing days during WWI. She interviews a doctor with whom she worked alongside in surgery and who is now studying the effects of gas and nerve agents in wartime. She knows well the suffering and loss that men experience in war. With this knowledge, she hopes she can determine the lifestyle, background and behaviors that may lead her to the letter writer and/or the dead man.
  
  As she races against time, another attack occurs. This time a poisonous gas is released at a dog and cat shelter. More threatening letters arrive. Maisie and Scotland Yard realize that their suspect has the power to inflict immense harm. As they continue to investigate, Maisie uncovers evidence that leads her to conclude that the letter writer is mentally unstable, suffering from the post-traumatic effects of war. He is a forgotten man with a vendetta against the system that abused and abandoned him.
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  However, it is Maisie Dobbs who continues to intrigue. Maisie is a unique protagonist who is not only intelligent, but has the smarts to use her sixth sense to solve complicated mysteries around sensitive and important matters. She also maintains her personal integrity about the truths of the cases she investigates, which makes her an indomitable heroine.

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  Published on: 9/24/2007    Last Visited: 9/24/2007  

  A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator.
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  In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche.

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  So it was rather surprising to discover how fascinated I was with Jacqueline Winspear's debut novel, Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press), which displays both of these traits in an entertaining tale that combines a wartime narrative with a mystery and a tragic romance.
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  Mystified, Maisie follows her instincts to the Retreat, a place of recovery for military veterans whose disfigurements have isolated them from society, and who now suffer from mental rather than physical wounds.
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  When Maisie was 13 years old, we're told, her mother died and the girl was sent into the domestic maid service of London social activist Lady Rowan Compton.Though this was an era when many servants never so much as laid eyes on their employers, Lady Rowan became a mentor to the precocious Maisie, providing her with an education and -- assisted by renowned forensic scientist, philosopher and investigator Maurice Blanche -- tutoring her in subjects to which women in most western schools of that time would never have been exposed.
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  But, as its title makes clear, Maisie Dobbs focuses on one woman and her development as an innovative and forward-thinking individual.Much less time is spent here exploring her actual detective work, and that's unfortunate.It would have been interesting to observe the nuances of investigating a crime in a society so ruled by sex, class and social structures.Still, Maisie proves to be an engaging and original character.

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